Nia Whims, a 13-year-old from Florida, was arrested over a false accusation. Her family is now filing a lawsuit.
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I want to see how many days the girl who framed her will stay in jail if she is white
WHERE , repeat, WHERE is the video of the kid that impersonated her? Why no videa of that kid being handcuffed? Why is that kids name not published? That kid that did this must be some deranged kid to do something so mean. Family should sue the school and the family of that kid for what she had to endure for more than what the article provided.
Handcuffing an innocent teenager is a violation of her being.
Fight fight
All of this could have been avoided had the cops did their job. They can check in less than five minutes where this originated from and seen that it wasn’t her. Makes me think they just didn’t care or were being lazy. Someone said it was her and that was it they took them at their word without doing the real police work. This happens all the time. We all should be very afraid.
show the actual criminal, fudge this crap of protecting him, what he did was swatting and I do think swatting is illegal.
What are they doing putting a child in handcuffs- at worse they should have talked to her about the account- and say you will have to stay in your house under house arrrest until we get to the bottom of this as it looks like you are guilty from the information we have at the moment.
Notice how we RARELY see wht kids in handcuffs when even accused of crimes. American justice system is TOXIC for people of color
As a parent, shoot just as a human being this story is heartbreaking and infuriating. Two weeks they kept her locked up and treat this whole thing like an “oops”. I hope the family gets every dime that they are suing for.
Did the fellow student get arrested on tv in handcuffs? How about investigating a crime ways committed at all before arresting? I hope her lawyer makes millions off this absurdity. Trump can announce his crimes on national tv and escape real consequences, but a 13 yo black girl endures 2weeks in prison with no evidence of wrong doing.
I whole heartedly believe she felt distant/emotionally traumatized/being forced to be in jail for 2 week. I know exactly what she means. When I was 16 I had parking tickets from parking near my high school. It was for $5. I knew nothing about warrants. Long story short I was arrested & had to wait to see the judge & they wouldn’t Release me to my mom until I could see a judge. It changed me-once I saw what I did
Nia Whims: You're going to do great things with your life. Sorry that this happened to you, Nia!
This is disgusting all they had to do was an IP search which they didn’t do for almost 2 weeks. Anybody with a brain knows the IP address confirms whether she sent them. This is the freaking police and Instagram. Also the school had multiple complaints that this girl was being bullied and targeted prior but they didn’t do anything I hope she sues the living hell out of all of them
give punishment and penalty. people are so sensitive and always are geeedy going after the money
these dam lawyers are trying to sue everybody.
Poor baby girl, she was completely innocent and they treated her like a criminal.
The cops did a thorough internal investigation of Themselves and found they did Nothing wrong
Little drama queens need to learn how to follow the law enforcement officers commands when they get arrested.
They are suing everyone with money and not the family of the student who started this all? I would name them in the suit also. This is how the justice system works so I don't know how successful they would be in a suit against them. They arrested her based on evidence that she committed a crime. After further investigation they discovered the truth and dismissed the charges. All people are innocent until proven guilty but still are arrested based on some kind of evidence. Sometimes they are found to be guilty and sometimes not. It's really just the way it goes. Why it took 2 weeks is more my question? Why a 13 year old with no record wasn't released to her parents would be another question. That's what I would be emphasizing
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When she gets done suing she won't even need to go back to school. It's like winning the fuking lottery
The school says it protected its students, but isn't this young lady one of those students?
How did the school protect her?
I've been complaining to the police about fake social media made in my name for over 10 years! Where's my news story? 😡
META, Spotify & Alphabet's mission is the same as Facebook's: PROFIT AHEAD OF USERS.
Bringing people together through algorithms that Troll Farms use to spread hate, disinformation and make little girls body-conscious.
Tik Tok the Chinese app has NOT been affected by META's huge losses in fact user demand has soared.
Her family should sue for punitive damages and have those who created the fake website for domestic terrorism. How traumatizing for that 13 yo kid and her family.
Nobody cares.
I pray 🙏🏾 the family gets compensated for what the school and the police department and meta did to this little girl sad she wanted to be a police officer but was treated that way honestly if your brown in Amerikkka these events happen too innocent people of color